Kagi Product Tips — Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

What are URL Redirects?

Tired of clicking a search result and landing on the version of a site you hate? Kagi’s URL Redirects (also called URL Rewrites) put that frustration on mute. The feature lets you create simple find-and-replace rules that rewrite search-result URLs before you click them, so you arrive at the page you actually want — old.reddit, a privacy-friendly frontend, or the non-AMP original. Small change, big relief.

How they work

Rules use a plain two-part format separated by a pipe: ^URL-you-want-to-change|URL-you-want-instead. Regex is supported, so you can do everything from domain swaps to capturing path segments and injecting them elsewhere. Kagi even shows a tiny icon on rewritten results so you know what changed and can hover to see the original URL and rule. Neat, and a little empowering — like putting a custom GPS on the web.

Community examples and practical uses

The Kagi community has shared a grab-bag of ready-made redirects: force old.reddit.com, strip Google’s AMP wrappers, route YouTube links through skipcut, or point npm links to a faster registry browser. One clever regex example always sends you to the “latest” docs for Knot DNS by capturing the post-version path and pasting it into /docs/latest/$1. It’s a small feature, but in a world of flaky redirects and annoying redesigns, being able to take control of where your clicks go feels kind of glorious.

Sources: kagi.com, Hacker News